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Without innovation the competitiveness of the automotive sector will quickly decline. (Photo: European Commission)

It is time for carmakers to clean up their act

The almost daily revelations of the Volkswagen dieselgate soap opera continue to cast a shadow over the company and the car industry.

The company has acutely damaged the reputations of Germany’s behemoth automotive sector and Teutonic engineering – but they are not the only villains.

Renault is now implicated after the French authorities raided its offices and it ‘voluntarily’ announced the recall of 700,000 vehicles for a software upgrade. Opel are also upgrading the software of ...

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Without innovation the competitiveness of the automotive sector will quickly decline. (Photo: European Commission)

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